Speaking the Unspeakable
Subtitle: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780520226005
Subjects: Gender studies; Philosophy of religion; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; General; Religion / General; 1856-1939; Feminist psychology; Freud, Sigmund,; Psychoanalysis and religion; Psychology
First sentence: On November 19, 1899, about two weeks after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud wrote impatiently to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in Berlin, "It is a thankless task to enlighten mankind a little.